Programmable foundation

Maximize capacity with industry-leading WaveLogic coherent optics

WaveLogic Ai, the next generation of our industry-leading WaveLogic coherent technology, gives you control over your network like you’ve never had before. It allows you to monitor links in real time so you can determine the optimal capacity for each channel—across any path, for any network fill. Even better, it allows you to tune to match that capacity with a single technology that can address any application, from metro Data Center Interconnect (DCI) to trans-Pacific submarine.

It builds upon the best-in-class performance of WaveLogic 3, using an advanced, 400G-optimized engine to significantly improve transport economics. What does this mean for you? Twice the capacity per channel, three times the distance at equivalent capacity, and four times the service density, all at less than half the power.

Future-proof Flexible Photonic Architectures

Ciena offers the full range of photonic architectures, from passive filters and Coherent Select for simple access/metro service extensions, to directionless, colorless, contentionless, and/or flexible grid ROADMs. This capability enables the long-anticipated agile network, providing the power to send any service anywhere in the network, dynamically.

Unique to Ciena, Coherent Select is an innovative, simple-to-deploy photonic architecture designed to help operators succeed in today’s web-scale world by bringing 100G closer to the access with wide deployment scalability.

Ciena offers the full range of photonic architectures, from passive filters and Coherent Select for simple access/metro service extensions, to directionless, colorless, contentionless, and/or flexible grid ROADMs. This capability enables the long-anticipated agile network, providing the power to send any service anywhere in the network, dynamically.

Unique to Ciena, Coherent Select is an innovative, simple-to-deploy photonic architecture designed to help operators succeed in today’s web-scale world by bringing 100G closer to the access with wide deployment scalability.

Move from manual to programmable at your own pace

Ciena’s field-proven OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane extends distributed intelligence to the photonic layer and provides as much or as little control over wavelength routing as you desire. Now you can efficiently offer new advanced service offerings with a wide range of service-level guarantees and zero surprises from the network.

Recover dBs of margin with PinPoint Advanced Fiber Analytics

PinPoint, Ciena’s fiber analytic software, leverages integrated Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) capabilities to create a complete fiber loss profile—similar to taking a CT scan of the network. Now, you can precisely localize and address potential trouble spots, reducing the risk of outages and accelerating repair times from days to hours.

Benefit from Raman gain without the pain

Smart Raman with simple and controlled turn-up and autonomous testing ensures proper fiber conditions are met prior to self-activation. Adding plug-and-play Raman into the network will optimize span and system designs and minimize the use of costly regenerators. Now you can avoid time-consuming manual configuration steps as well as fiber or equipment damage that comes with traditional Raman deployments.